Data Mining of Dental Images

1. A system for providing data mining of a dental image, the system comprising: an aggregator server, wherein the aggregator server is configured to: receive a dental image of a patient from a dental image provider, wherein the dental image provider is an e-commerce service; process the dental image with a machine learning (ML) anatomy dataset; match and identify an anatomy from the ML anatomy dataset to the dental image; match and identify the dental image with a ML pathology and treatment dataset; match a pathology and a treatment from the machine leaning pathology and treatment dataset to the dental image; insert the dental image and the anatomy, the pathology, and the treatment associated with the dental image to a patient dataset associated with the patient; perform a cluster analysis of the patient dataset with a cluster dataset to produce a correlated dental image information; provide the correlated dental image information to a data mining entity and to compile a diagnostic aid for a user; format the correlated dental image information based on another dataset associated with the data mining entity; merge the correlated dental image information into the data mining entity dataset; and identify and correct a discrepancy between the correlated dental image information and the data mining entity dataset.

2. The aggregator server of claim 1 , wherein the dental image is obtained from one or more of: a digital image, a film based x-ray, a digitally scanned x-ray, a digitally captured x-ray, a scintillator technology based image, a trans-illumination image, a florescence technology based image, a blue florescence technology based image, a laser based technology based image, and a computed tomography (CT) scan based image.

3. The aggregator server of claim 1 , wherein the dental image provider utilizes an image capture device or a data storage device.

4. The aggregator server of claim 3 , wherein the capture image device includes one or more of: an x-ray equipment, a scintillator counter, an indirect or direct flat panel detector (FPD), a charged couple device (CCD), a phosphor plate radiography device, a picture archiving and communication system (PACS), a photo-stimulable phosphor (PSP) device, a computer tomography (CT) device, a wireless complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS), a cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) device.

5. The aggregator server of claim 1 , wherein the aggregator server is further configured to: change an orientation of the dental image based on the anatomy; correlate one or more classifications from the dental image and the anatomy with at least one operation to: identify teeth in the dental image; identify a position for each of the teeth as adult or primary based on one or more of a universal number system, a palmer notation, or an international standards organization (ISO) system; identify one or more of a maxillary, a mandible molar, or a canine relationship between the teeth based on an angle's classification of malocclusion; and insert the one or more classifications into the patient dataset in relation to the dental image.

6. The aggregator server of claim 1 , wherein the aggregator server is further configured to: determine the anatomy associated with the dental image by performing at least one operation to: differentiate the dental image as a left or a right vertical bite wing image; differentiate the dental image as a left or a right horizontal bite wing image; differentiate the dental image as a left or a right maxillary periapical image; differentiate the dental image as a left or a right mandibular periapical image; differentiate the dental image as a maxillary or mandibular anterior image; differentiate the dental image as a left or a right side of a panoramic image; differentiate the dental image as including an absent tooth or a present tooth; or differentiate the dental image as including a cephalometric image with an over bite, an over jet, an angle's classification of malocclusion, an airway space or a sleep apnea.

7. The aggregator server of claim 1 , wherein the aggregator server is further configured to: determine the anatomy associated with the dental image by performing at least one operation to: differentiate the dental image as a maxillary image or a mandible image; differentiate the dental image as a left or a right temporal mandibular joint image; identify and measure one or more of: a mandibular canal, an inferior alveolar nerve space, a mental foramen, a staphne's cyst, a mandible foramen, a condylar process, a mandibular coronoid process, a sublingual fossa, a ramus, a alveolar crest, a mental protuberance, a mental tubercle, a mylohyoid grove, a mylohyoid line, a lingual, a pterygoid fossa, an incisive canal, a zygomatic bone, a maxillary sinus, a curve of spee, a diastomer, a tooth bud, a germination, a fused teeth, a full or partial septum, an open bite, a cross bite, an over jet, or an over bite associated with the dental image; identify and measure one or more of a maxillary sinus size and volume, a bone thickness of a floor of a maxillary sinus, a bone thickness surrounding the maxillary sinus, a graft placed in the maxillary sinus, and a septum in the maxillary sinus; identify a post-surgical maxillary sinus or mandibular alveolar ridge splitting procedure; and identify a frontal sinus, a graft placed in the frontal sinus, and a bone thickness surrounding the frontal sinus.

8. The aggregator server of claim 1 , wherein the pathology and the treatment dataset includes one or more pathology annotations and one or more treatment annotations designated to one or more model dental images associated with a dental field including one or more of: endodontics, periodontics, orthodontics, prosthodontics, oral surgery, oral pathology, pediatrics, temporal mandibular joint dentistry, and radiology.

9. An aggregator server for providing data mining of a dental image, the aggregator server comprising: a computer vision component configured to analyze the dental image, a memory configured to store instructions associated with an aggregator service, a processor coupled to the computer vision component and the memory, the processor executing the instructions associated with the aggregator service, wherein the aggregator service includes: an image processing engine configured to: receive a dental image of a patient from a dental image provider, wherein the dental image provider is an e-commerce service; process the dental image with a machine learning (ML) anatomy dataset; match and identify an anatomy from the ML anatomy dataset to the dental image; match and identify the dental image with a ML pathology and treatment dataset; match a pathology and a treatment from the ML pathology and treatment dataset to the dental image; query and receive a patient dataset of the patient associated with the dental image from a patient data provider; insert the dental image and the anatomy, the pathology, and the treatment associated with the dental image to the patient dataset; perform a cluster analysis of the patient dataset with a cluster dataset to produce a correlated dental image information; provide the correlated dental image information to a data mining entity and to compile a diagnostic aid for a user; format the correlated dental image information based on another dataset associated with the data mining entity; merge the correlated dental image information into the data mining entity dataset; and identify and correct a discrepancy between the correlated dental image information and the data mining entity dataset.

10. The aggregator server of claim 9 , wherein the dental image is processed with the ML anatomy dataset upon a process to: verify an authorization by the patient to analyze the dental image.

11. The aggregator server of claim 10 , wherein the correlated dental image information is provided to a data mining entity upon a process to: verify a compliance of the dental image and the correlated dental image information with a regulatory policy.

12. The aggregator server of claim 11 , wherein the regulatory policy includes health insurance portability and accountability act (HIPAA).

13. The aggregator server of claim 9 , wherein the dental image is not processed with the ML anatomy dataset in response to a failure to determine an authorization by the patient to analyze the dental image.

14. The aggregator server of claim 9 , wherein the patient dataset includes one or more of an age, a first name, a gender, a middle initial, a last name, a date of birth, a zip code, an address, a cell phone number, a land line number, a current medication, a previous medication, a social security number, a material status, an insurance, a patient's insurance identification number, a patient's email address, a change of insurance, a change of employment, a change of zip code, a change of the previous medication, a change of the marital status, and a change of the gender associated with the patient.

15. The aggregator server of claim 9 , wherein the data mining entity includes a dental insurance data mining service, and wherein the dental insurance data mining provides an insurance dataset including one or more of an American dental association (ADA) code, a date, a claim identifier, a claim number, a duplicate claim associated with the claim identifier, a national provider identification number for a provider associated with a patient, and a provider's state license number to further analyze and integrate the correlated dental image information.

16. The aggregator server of claim 9 , wherein the data mining entity includes a bioinformatics data mining service, and wherein the bioinformatics data mining service provides a bioinformatics dataset including one or more of a gene identifier, a gene sequence, a single nucleotide polymorphism, a nucleic acid sequence, a protein sequence, an annotating genome, a shotgun sequence, a periodontal disease, a caries susceptibility, an impacted tooth, a tooth loss, an angle's classification of malocclusion, and a diabetes diagnosis to further analyze and integrate the correlated dental image information.

17. A method of providing data mining of a dental image, the method comprising: receiving a dental image of a patient from a dental image provider; processing the dental image with a machine learning (ML) anatomy dataset; matching and identifying an anatomy from the ML anatomy dataset to the dental image; matching and identifying the dental image with a ML pathology and treatment dataset; matching a pathology and a treatment from the ML pathology and treatment dataset to the dental image; querying and receive a patient dataset of the patient associated with the dental image from a patient data provider; inserting the dental image and the anatomy, the pathology, and the treatment associated with the dental image to the patient dataset; performing a cluster analysis of the patient dataset with a cluster dataset to produce a correlated dental image information; providing the correlated dental image information to a data mining entity and to compile a diagnostic aid for a user; formatting the correlated dental image information based on another dataset associated with the data mining entity; merging the correlated dental image information into the data mining entity dataset; and identifying and correcting a discrepancy between the correlated dental image information and the data mining entity dataset.